Responses to Comments from Jay AllenMovable Type Pro 4.382014-03-10T23:27:03Zhttp://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi?__mode=feed&_type=replies&blog_id=0&id=973I am a Perl neophyte...for someone at my level what would be the best way to get involved?tag:blogs.perl.org,2010:/users/jay_allen//637.1240#59032010-12-13T04:40:07ZRobert
I am a Perl neophyte...for someone at my level what would be the best way to get involved?
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Jay,
I was the same, I used Perl for a long time in industry but didn't really contrib or write cpan modules, etc. I think there's a bit of a learning curve to getting involved, although I do that that curve is a lot smaller today than in the past. There's more examples and of course more projects are following relatively open contribution models.tag:blogs.perl.org,2010:/users/jay_allen//637.1240#59182010-12-13T22:04:26Zjohn napiorkowski
Jay,

I was the same, I used Perl for a long time in industry but didn't really contrib or write cpan modules, etc. I think there's a bit of a learning curve to getting involved, although I do that that curve is a lot smaller today than in the past. There's more examples and of course more projects are following relatively open contribution models.

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The best this is find a project you are interested in, ideally one that has an existing community, find the source (a lot of Perl projects are managed on Github now) and find something useful to do, such as work on documentation, add test cases etc.
Most Perl projects are organized on IRC now, so joining an active community like around Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose will get you more people that can help you get started.
The way I got started is that I wanted a feature added to DBIx::Class and when I talked about it on the mailing list, it became clear that if I was willing to put in the time to give it a go myself I'd probably get a bit of help :)
I probably contributed to existing projects for almost 2 years before I released my own CPAN module. When I do release my own code it tends to be stuff that builds upon existing, popular projects, just filling in gaps in the software ecosystem. There's a lot of value in working on existing stuff, or adopting important but unmaintained code. You'd get the most community thanks for doing that as well. tag:blogs.perl.org,2010:/users/jay_allen//637.1240#59192010-12-13T22:14:15Zjohn napiorkowski
The best this is find a project you are interested in, ideally one that has an existing community, find the source (a lot of Perl projects are managed on Github now) and find something useful to do, such as work on documentation, add test cases etc.

Most Perl projects are organized on IRC now, so joining an active community like around Catalyst, DBIx::Class, Moose will get you more people that can help you get started.

The way I got started is that I wanted a feature added to DBIx::Class and when I talked about it on the mailing list, it became clear that if I was willing to put in the time to give it a go myself I'd probably get a bit of help :)

I probably contributed to existing projects for almost 2 years before I released my own CPAN module. When I do release my own code it tends to be stuff that builds upon existing, popular projects, just filling in gaps in the software ecosystem. There's a lot of value in working on existing stuff, or adopting important but unmaintained code. You'd get the most community thanks for doing that as well.

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Actually, I was thinking of:
coding_perl_since = YYYY
Once the index has more information, I'd like to see it used for a job site where you could search on Perl devs based on favourite modules, current country etc. Knowing how many years experience someone has would be helpful info as well.tag:blogs.perl.org,2011:/users/olaf_alders//280.1327#175842011-01-12T15:37:28ZOlaf Aldershttp://www.wundercounter.com
Actually, I was thinking of:

coding_perl_since = YYYY

Once the index has more information, I'd like to see it used for a job site where you could search on Perl devs based on favourite modules, current country etc. Knowing how many years experience someone has would be helpful info as well.

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Hey this is interesting! I have been using another IDE to develop daily, I'll give Padre a new try see how it goes for a month! Great work releasing 1.0tag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/peter_lavender//513.5337#13009282013-11-27T17:15:05Znaia.luis
Hey this is interesting! I have been using another IDE to develop daily, I'll give Padre a new try see how it goes for a month! Great work releasing 1.0]]>
install Padre:
Invalid version format (non-numeric data) at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Padre/Document.pm line 126.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Padre/Document.pm line 126.
Compilation failed in require at C:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/Padre/Wx/Main.pm line 4115.
Perl exited with active threads:
1 running and unjoined
0 finished and unjoined
0 running and detached
This is on WinXP-sp3 with Strawberry perl 5.18
Can you help me?tag:blogs.perl.org,2013:/users/peter_lavender//513.5337#13303802014-03-10T23:27:03Zjcoxi.myopenid.comhttps://jcoxi.myopenid.com/
install Padre: